AI Productivity
Everything that shortens a working day: note and document assistants, meeting and transcription helpers, browser extensions, slide and document generators, and the small utilities that sit between them (27 entries). These are mostly short, factual entries rather than long reviews, which suits the category — a productivity tool is usually decided on three things: what the free tier actually allows, what the paid tier costs per month or per year, and whether it works in your browser, on your desktop, or only in someone's ecosystem. Those three facts are what each page leads with, sourced from the vendor's own pricing page and dated. Where a tool has been run hands-on, the entry carries a test log with timestamps and says what broke; where it has not, the entry says "official pages only" and refuses to score it, which is why ratings are unevenly spread across this category. The cards below are sorted newest first, and the price snapshot table above them carries the same order with each entry's price wording, evidence level and check date in a single row.
Price snapshot
Every entry in this category as one row, in the same newest-first order as the cards below. The price column is the opening line of what we captured from the vendor’s own page — hover or focus a cell for the complete wording, which is never rewritten — and the last column is the day that price was checked.
| # | Tool | Evidence | Price as published | Price checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepCell: Spreadsheets, Reports, and Slides in One .deepcell File | Official prices checked | Free $0 (no account to start) | 2026-10-26 |
| 2 | DigUp: Describe Your Files and Find Them Locally | Official prices checked | Free (MIT open source) | 2026-10-25 |
| 3 | Beam: Run AI Agents on One Mac, Use Its Windows on Another | Official prices checked | Free 20 min/day | 2026-10-23 |
| 4 | MangaTranslate Review: Real Page Test, Credits, Watermark | Hands-on tested | Credit packs from $4.99 (1,100 credits) — subscriptions… | 2026-10-14 |
| 5 | GenOffice Review: Free Open-Source AI Office Suite | Official prices checked | Free (Apache-2.0, no paid tier) | 2026-10-04 |
| 6 | Huashu-Report: An Agent Skill From 41 Reports | Official prices checked | Free (open source, MIT) | 2026-09-29 |
| 7 | wechatDownload: Batch-Download WeChat Articles | Official prices checked | Free to use | 2026-09-29 |
| 8 | LifeOS by Daniel Miessler: An Open-Source AI Harness | Official prices checked | Free and open source on GitHub | 2026-09-28 |
| 9 | Lumiko: $9 Lifetime Auto-Zoom Screen Recorder for Chrome | Official prices checked | Free forever | 2026-09-21 |
| 10 | Lumiko vs ScreenCursor (2026): $9 or $49 for Auto-Zoom? | Official prices checked | Lumiko Free | 2026-09-21 |
| 11 | OpenSCAD: The Open-Source Programmatic CAD Tool | Official prices checked | Free (GPL-2.0-or-later) | 2026-09-21 |
| 12 | TimesFM 3.0: Google's Open Forecasting Model (33K Stars) | Official prices checked | Free (open source | 2026-09-21 |
| 13 | Oats: Free, Open-Source Meeting Notes That Stay On-Device | Official prices checked | Free (MIT open source): on-device Local backend fully… | 2026-09-18 |
| 14 | PhraseVault 3.0: A $29 Lifetime Text Expander for AI Prompts | Official prices checked | $29 one-time per user (Windows + macOS same license) | 2026-09-18 |
| 15 | Voiskey: AI Voice Typing That Rewrites for Your Audience | Official prices checked | Free to start | 2026-09-17 |
| 16 | Marqly 6.0: AI Bookmark Manager for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor | Official prices checked | Free (up to 2,000 bookmarks, no AI) | 2026-09-16 |
| 17 | ScreenCursor: $49 Lifetime Auto-Zoom Recorder Inside Chrome | Official prices checked | Lifetime only: $49 early price (vendor says it rises to… | 2026-09-16 |
| 18 | Loqua Pricing 2026: The $22 Voice-Typing Translation App | Official prices checked | Free | 2026-09-15 |
| 19 | AI Toolbox: One Extension for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Grok | Official prices checked | Free: 2 folders | 2026-09-17 |
| 20 | Pastea: $22.49 Lifetime Clipboard Manager With MCP Hooks | Official prices checked | Lifetime only | 2026-09-17 |
| 21 | Scriptly: The iOS Teleprompter That Follows Your Voice | Official prices checked | Free public beta via TestFlight (Sept 2026) | 2026-09-12 |
| 22 | Tucky: Edge-Docked macOS Notes With a Built-In Agent (240-Credit Tier, No Published Price) | Official prices checked | Free: 5 notes (no account), no AI | 2026-10-26 |
| 23 | Storyflow: AI Creative Planner That Reads Your Whole Board | Official prices checked | No free plan yet (launches before the end of 2026) | 2026-10-20 |
| 24 | Clipto: Local AI Memory Over Terabytes of Footage (MCP) | Official prices checked | Free download | 2026-10-16 |
| 25 | Jupitrr Cut: Scene Teleprompter That Edits Your Jump Cuts | Official prices checked | App: Free with in-app purchases (core recorder free, no… | 2026-10-20 |
| 26 | Dictantor: On-Device Voice Notes With No Subscription | Official prices checked | Free (no account, no subscription) | 2026-10-20 |
| 27 | Gamma Pricing 2026: Credit System and What $9 Buys | Official prices checked | Free | 2026-10-19 |
DeepCell: Spreadsheets, Reports, and Slides in One .deepcell File
DeepCell is a deadline survival kit for office work: one .deepcell file connects a spreadsheet, a report, slides and a reasoning cheat sheet, so one edit updates the linked parts. Web app, CLI and remote MCP server, no account to start; Free plan, Teams coming soon, Enterprise custom. Official site, pricing page and agent guide fetched and checked 2026-10-26.
DigUp: Describe Your Files and Find Them Locally
DigUp is a free, MIT-licensed desktop search app that finds files by what they contain — photos, PDFs, documents, audio, video and code — using Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 entirely on-device. 5,720 stars within 17 days. GitHub API, raw README, and third-party coverage checked 2026-10-25.
Beam: Run AI Agents on One Mac, Use Its Windows on Another
Beam streams the windows of one Mac (a headless mini running agents) onto another Mac as native, live windows with Dock icons and Cmd-Tab presence. Free 20 minutes a day; subscription $7/mo billed $84/yr; lifetime $199.
MangaTranslate Review: Real Page Test, Credits, Watermark
We ran a Japanese page through MangaTranslate's free guest quota on 2026-10-14 — four correct lines, bubbles in place, and a watermark on the result.
GenOffice Review: Free Open-Source AI Office Suite
genspark-ai/genoffice - 8,551-star Apache-2.0 desktop office suite from Genspark with six editors (.docx/.xlsx/.pptx/PDF/HTML/Markdown), byte-preserving saves, a CLI, an agent skill and an MCP server. Free with BYOK; AI features otherwise run on Genspark credits whose paid plans sit behind a login wall. GitHub API, release feed, raw README, official site and two third-party reviews checked 2026-10-04.
Huashu-Report: An Agent Skill From 41 Reports
Huashu-Report is an MIT-licensed agent skill for producing institutional-grade research reports, built by dissecting 41 top-tier reports (Stanford HAI, McKinsey, OpenAI and others) into quantified style and structure rules.
wechatDownload: Batch-Download WeChat Articles
wechatDownload is a Windows/macOS desktop tool for batch-downloading WeChat Official Account articles to html, md, pdf and docx, with MCP and Skill support. The repository has no LICENSE file, so it is not open source in the legal sense.
LifeOS by Daniel Miessler: An Open-Source AI Harness
LifeOS is an open-source AI harness that carries your goals, standards and context into Claude Code, Cursor or Codex — a current-to-ideal-state loop built around evidence, intent engineering and composable execution units.
Lumiko: $9 Lifetime Auto-Zoom Screen Recorder for Chrome
Lumiko is a free Chrome screen recorder that watches your cursor and clicks, then generates cinematic zoom-and-pan moves automatically — no keyframes. Pro is a $9 one-time lifetime price (list $29) covering 3 devices, removing the watermark and unlocking 4K exports. Everything renders locally in the browser, no account required. Pricing and features checked against lumiko.dev, the Product Hunt launch, and the Chrome Web Store listing on 2026-09-21.
Lumiko vs ScreenCursor (2026): $9 or $49 for Auto-Zoom?
Two Chrome-extension screen recorders that add cinematic zoom and pan for free — except one is actually free. Lumiko (launch week, $9 lifetime, webcam bubble, 4K) versus ScreenCursor ($49 one-time, no trial, 1080p cap, Windows/Linux desktop capture). Prices checked against lumiko.dev and screencursor.com on 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-16 respectively.
OpenSCAD: The Open-Source Programmatic CAD Tool
OpenSCAD models real objects with code rather than mouse clicks. Stars, license (GPL-2.0-or-later with CGAL exception) and workflow facts checked, 2026-09-21.
TimesFM 3.0: Google's Open Forecasting Model (33K Stars)
TimesFM is Google Research's open-source time-series foundation model for zero-shot forecasting. Version 3.0 adds native multivariate prediction, but the 3.0 weights ship under a non-commercial license — code and older checkpoints stay Apache-2.0.
Oats: Free, Open-Source Meeting Notes That Stay On-Device
Oats is a free, open-source notetaker that records meeting audio on your Mac or Windows machine with no bot in the call, then writes the summary.
PhraseVault 3.0: A $29 Lifetime Text Expander for AI Prompts
PhraseVault 3.0 is a local, source-available text expander for Windows and macOS that opens a search box instead of making you memorize abbreviations — a $29 one-time license, 14-day no-card trial, 30-day refund, offline library that never leaves your disk, and a new 3.0 option to PIN-lock individual sensitive snippets. Pricing checked against phrasevault.app and the Product Hunt 3.0 launch on 2026-09-18.
Voiskey: AI Voice Typing That Rewrites for Your Audience
Voiskey is a cross-platform AI voice typing app (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows) built around "expression intelligence" — it shapes dictated text for who's reading it instead of sanding everything flat. Pricing checked against the official site, the US App Store listing, and Product Hunt launch coverage 2026-09-17: free to start, Pro at $29.99/mo or $129.99/yr on mobile.
Marqly 6.0: AI Bookmark Manager for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor
Marqly 6.0 adds an AI Assistant over your saves, an AI Organizer for bulk filing, and an MCP server that pulls your bookmark library into Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. Pricing checked against the official site and Product Hunt launch coverage 2026-09-16: Free up to 2,000 bookmarks, Pro $39 first year then $72/year (about $6/month billed annually).
ScreenCursor: $49 Lifetime Auto-Zoom Recorder Inside Chrome
ScreenCursor is a Chrome extension that turns every click, drag, and keystroke into an automatic zoom while you record, then exports a finished 1080p MP4 without uploading anything. Lifetime license $49 (rising to $79), 3 computers, no subscription. Checked against the official site and Product Hunt 2026-09-16.
Loqua Pricing 2026: The $22 Voice-Typing Translation App
Loqua is a Mac + Windows voice-typing app that translates mid-sentence into 100+ languages and reads your screen. Current pricing: Free (8,000 words/week, no card), Pro $22/mo or $18/mo billed annually, 30-day Pro trial. Numbers checked directly against the current official pricing page on 2026-09-15.
AI Toolbox: One Extension for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Grok
AI Toolbox is a free Chrome extension that adds folders, full-text search, a prompt library, and conversation export inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. 40,000+ users, 4.7/5. Pricing checked against the official site and the Chrome Web Store 2026-09-13; price re-verified 2026-09-17.
Pastea: $22.49 Lifetime Clipboard Manager With MCP Hooks
Pastea is a macOS clipboard manager that saves every screenshot, snippet, link, and code block you copy, with search, OCR text extraction, and an MCP endpoint so AI tools can read your clips. $22.49 launch price for the first 50 buyers. Facts gathered 2026-09-13; price re-verified against pastea.app 2026-09-17.
Scriptly: The iOS Teleprompter That Follows Your Voice
Scriptly is a free public-beta iOS teleprompter that scrolls your script by tracking your speech, adds Apple Watch record controls, and keeps scripts local with no account required. Pricing and claims checked against the official site, Terms page, and Product Hunt 2026-09-12; currently $0 in beta.
Tucky: Edge-Docked macOS Notes With a Built-In Agent (240-Credit Tier, No Published Price)
Tucky turns the edge of your Mac screen into a fanned-out note strip with an encrypted local store and a built-in agent. Five notes are free; a signed-in account keeps unlimited notes with 240 credits, and no dollar price is published on the official site as of 2026-10-26.
Storyflow: AI Creative Planner That Reads Your Whole Board
Storyflow is an AI creative-planning canvas — an infinite board of story blueprints and 200+ tactic templates, with an AI that reads your whole canvas. Pricing checked against storyflow.so on 2026-09-11: Plus $7.99/mo, Pro $14, Max $39 (billed annually); the free plan does not launch until late 2026.
Clipto: Local AI Memory Over Terabytes of Footage (MCP)
Clipto indexes video, audio, photos and documents on your own machine and lets AI agents query them through MCP — no cloud uploads. Free download, then Pro at $9.99 for the first month and $12.49 per month billed yearly.
Jupitrr Cut: Scene Teleprompter That Edits Your Jump Cuts
Jupitrr Cut records a script scene by scene, trims the silence around every take, and auto-stitches a clean jump-cut video — free on iOS and Android with in-app purchases. Checked against official pages and store listings 2026-09-10.
Dictantor: On-Device Voice Notes With No Subscription
Dictantor records meetings and ideas on iPhone or Apple Watch, transcribes on-device, and charges nothing — no account, no subscription, and no per-seat pricing to negotiate later.
Gamma Pricing 2026: Credit System and What $9 Buys
Gamma's 2026 plans — Free (400 signup credits), Plus $9/mo (1,000 credits), Pro $18/mo (4,000 credits + API), Ultra $90/mo (20,000 credits) — plus what its AI credits really meter, checked against gamma.app and 2026 third-party trackers on September 24, 2026.